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Eat, Pray, Love
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by: Elizabeth Gilbert
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Sales Rank: 53460
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Released: 2006-02-16 |
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Media: Paperback
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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls ?Anne Lamott?s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister?) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
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Eat, Pray, Love
- Paperback: 334 pages
- Publisher: Viking; 2006-02-16
- Label: Viking
- Studio: Viking
- ISBN: 0739474189
- Average Customer Review: based on 1699 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #53460
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Couldn't finish it... 2008-10-14
Comment: ... cause it was just plain naive! I don't want to give it 1 star because parts of it at least made me interested. But overall (until I stoped reading it)this book really didn't do it for me. I think first of all it was too spiritual to suit me and secondly I got really annoyed with the selfishness of Gilbert. I blame myself for the second part though - I should have realized that reading some other reviews and given the fact that the book is about one woman's life crisis. However I just found it bland and annoying. The part in Italy was ok (I think that this is because I have lived in Rome myself before) but it is the India part that made me give this book away. So many people recommended this book to me and I would too... if the person in question is really spiritual, to me it just got wierd.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Easy read of a lovely spiritual journey 2008-10-14
Comment: This book is not a heavy read, but a sit around the pool read of a woman on a journey of self discovery. All along her journey were tidbits of learning, new people, and good food. All the things that would make her savor the cultures of each place while finding her authentic self.
I took a journey like this and it was awesome, It is all about seeing new places and finding out something new about self in each place.
This is a spiritual treat.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Wonderful!! 2008-10-12
Comment: This is a wonderful, insightful book that will really help open your eyes to Yourself!
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Best Book I've Ever Listened To 2008-10-11
Comment: I listened to this in traffic for about a week. I actually looked forward to sitting in traffic. Her voice is soothing, the content is inspiring, and I can't imagine why anyone would give it one star. I loved it and was sad when I got to the last cd. Wonderfully written and very well read.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Beautiful Nuggets of Wisdom 2008-10-11
Comment: While this book does sometimes bog down in her descriptions it offers a way of dealing with things that affect many women and their choices/decisions today...I only suggest you don't worry about understanding everything or believing everything she says...the important parts will jump out at you and stay with you....."See, now that's your problem. You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be."
Gotta love Richard from Texas' logic....
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